Improvement in toy-hoops



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RIVERA WARD, or EEWARKQN'EW JERSEY;

Lettere Patent Ne. 110,519, dated Deeember 27, '1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN roy-Hoops.

The Schedule referred toin these Letters P atenl: and making perl: of the same.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, RIVERA WARD, of Newark, in

the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and improved Toy'-Hoop,.0f which the following is a-speoiiioation. Y

Nature of Invention.'

This invention consists in attaching to the crossbar or bars of a toy-hoop one or ymore bells, in suoli a manner that the'bell or bells are acted upon by a hammer formed with a slotted plate, which slides upon pius or studs in the -cross-har or bars, and, as the hoop is rolled, the hammer or hammers strike they bell, and are then thrown out of Contact with the same by means of a spring located upon the stud Aor,l

v guide it in its up-and-down motion.

e e are vprojections or lugs 'formed with the sliding plate in suoh a manner as to engage with the spring F, which is coiled around the hell-post, with lone end secured to the cross-bar and the other free. When the hammers strike the bell the free end on one side eugages with the lug e and the plate is thrown back out of Contact with the bell. vvThe other end i' the' wire is raised suiicieutly far above the bar to allowl of its action on the opposite lug.

It will'be seen that as mau y cross-hars and bells as is desirable can be used, and, it' dilferent-'toned bells are used, a very pleasing effect will be produced'.

What I-olailu isf I 1. A'toy-hoop, provided wit-l1 oross-baror bin-sand stationary bells, the same being operated by means of a sliding plate carrying hammers, substantially as set forth.

2. The sliding metallic plate D, provided with a slot, b, stops or lugse e, and a hammer or hammers,

E E, substantially as and for the purpose described.

3. The spring F,vztrrauged in sonnet-tion with the bell A and sliding plate l), and operating substantially as and ibrthe'purpose speoilied. A

e .RIVER-A WARD.

Witnesses: v

OLIVER DRAKE, ABRAHAM MANNERs. 

